Relational query optimizers have traditionally relied upon table cardinalities when estimating the cost of the query plans they consider. While this approach has been and continue...
In this paper we present a method for automatically segmenting unformatted text records into structured elements. Several useful data sources today are human-generated as continuo...
Vinayak R. Borkar, Kaustubh Deshmukh, Sunita Saraw...
We present the Lixto project, which is both a research project in database theory and a commercial enterprise that develops Web data extraction (wrapping) and Web service definiti...
Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Robert Baumgartner,...
An important issue in data integration is the integration of semantically equivalent but schematically heterogeneous data sources. Declarative mechanisms supporting powerful source...
We present an event based system for storing, managing, and presenting personal multimedia history. The development of such systems is a challenge because information about person...